My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.


Lamar Hunt was the son of HL Hunt. He was active in the formation of the American Football League which was absorbed into the National Football League. He also had interests in professional soccer and amusement parks.

Initially Hunt owned the Dallas Texans at the start of the new league, but since the NFL quickly franchised the Dallas Cowboys, he found there was not enough support for two professional teams in the city. He moved his team to Kansas City and renamed them the Chiefs.

Hunt, along with his brothers Bunker and William were involved in a scheme to corner the market for silver, which the did. They profited and found themselves in legal trouble because of it.

Lamar Hunt was reported to be in attendance at the home of Clint Murchison the night of November 21 and helped pay for the ad “welcoming” Kennedy to Dallas.

Lamar Hunt: The Gentle Giant Who Revolutionized Professional Sports
by David A. F. Sweet

Lamar Hunt was best known as the founder of both the Kansas City Chiefs and the AFL, which later merged with the NFL to form the most successful sports league in U.S. history. Here, author David A. F. Sweet writes about how football was only one of the many interests in Hunt's life and business ventures. Hunt seemed to be omnipresent in the sporting world, having helped form Major League Soccer, the modern pro tennis tour, and the Chicago Bulls. This biography delves deep into Hunt's impact on many popular sports and reveals never-before-disclosed details of this soft-spoken man's true importance in transforming the sporting landscape into the massive industry that it is today.